News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:TruffleC: A C implementation on top of JVM (2014) by chrisseaton on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:11AM (#32436436)
> How is the C memory modelled?

Using a combination of native memory and JVM managed memory, depending on what the memory is needed for.

> For instance, what happens when you call a function-pointer?

This is a good example - because TruffleC can inline-cache a function-pointer, inlining the called function!

All this is in the linked paper, of course.

There are no comments on this comment yet.